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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Is phlegmingly a word? I'm making it a word

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

But this is time for celebration.

I just launched a television network!

New Ellijay Television is live on cable, online, and on Roku.

We're powered by free software! We're creating creative commons media. We're improving public domain media.

We're broadcasting originally produced material and public domain videos. Most of our work is produced on recycled and upcycled equipment.

We're re-defining what it means to do Broadcast Television in the 20s.

The future is here, and it's a bunch of weird nerds in the north GA mountains.

We need your help! https://newellijay.tv/sponsor-us/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Attachments:

• The Twitter account @WordPress, replying to @WPEngine's lawsuit tweet, saying simply "Please stop attacking us 🙏" (remote)
• The meme where a person puts a stick into the spokes of their own bicycle as they're riding it, causing them to crash to the ground. The person is labeled "Matt Mullenweg," the stick is also labeled "Matt Mullenweg," and after crashing, the person is saying, "Please stop attacking us 🙏" (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

mcc wrote:

I think I just vaulted over the line between "WordPress is too much of a maintenance burden, I want to move away" to "I need to stop using WordPress. Now."

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113277490070161595

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

Poll: should the new Social Web Foundation (SWF) be transparent about their funding?

@socialwebfdn recently launched with a mission of "a growing, healthy, financially viable and multi-polar Fediverse”. In TechCrunch, @Sarahp reported that SWF has "some backing" from Meta as well as Flipboard, Ghost, Mastodon, and others as well as a "large grant" from the Ford Foundation. "In total, SWF is closing in on $1 million in financial support."

But there aren't any details about the funding , and the only grant from Ford Foundation to SWF's fiscal sponsor anybody's found so far is for $50K, which is a lot less than $1 million. So there's a lot of speculation -- and considering that Meta's involved, a lot of suspicion.

Transparency about funding could potentially be helpful here. If there is indeed a larger Ford Foundation grant, good to know, and what's it for? Also, maybe Meta's just chipping in a bit to get things off the ground. Even if Meta's contributing a lot more, far better to be up-front about it.

Then again, transparency about funding could also have its downsides. In a thread on SocialHub, SWF advisor @ben (who's worked in non-profits for a while) noted that there are quite a few reasons why making finances available in real-time (as opposed to the legally required annual Form 990) "may not be desirable - not least because it may impact ongoing fundraising from other groups." And it's certainly true that different non-profits take different approaches here, there isn't any one right answer in general.

So ... what do people think?

@fediversenews @fediverse

#fediverse #meta #fedipact #swf #poll

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Upon powerup, the CPU begins to execute code.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

also, accompanying AI-generated podcast is amusing

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• b4019e2677acc698.mp3 (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

new blog post up about system design choices

https://blog.ncoti.org/application-or-webapp-a-basic-design-choice-2/

@torgo may enjoy it

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

patrickbrosset@mas.to ("Patrick Brosset") wrote:

Today is the LAST day to submit proposals for the Interop 2025 project.

But also, it's a great time to review the existing proposals and upvote the ones you care about!

Unleash your thumbs-up emojis at:
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Afocus-area-proposal

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

deno_land@fosstodon.org ("Deno") wrote:

4 years after Deno 1.0, the next generation of JavaScript is ready for production at scale.

Deno 2 is out today
🐢 Fully backwards compatible with Node and npm 📦 Package management and node_modules and package.json
📅 Long term support

deno.com/2

#deno #node #javascript #typescript #webdevelopment

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• 462c01f9ddee3a5b.png (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

https://www.apologize.lol/

#USPol

Attachments:

• How do you know who didn't vote? We formed a Super PAC and bought the personal voting records of every American citizen from a data broker we found on the internet. It's pretty fucked up. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

coopartisans@social.coop ("Artisans Cooperative") wrote:

Join the Artisans Cooperative as an Artisan or Supporter to take back control from big tech marketplaces!

We are currently running a Membership Drive this month, so check out how to join for as little as $10!

Check it out here: https://artisans.coop/pages/membership

#cooperative #handmade #marketplace

Attachments:

• Flyer with the text: "Artisans Cooperative, Become a Member! Become an owner/operator of our handmade marketplace! We're looking for: Artisans, Supporters to take back control from Big Tech marketplaces! Benefit: Ownership and Financial Rights. Artisan Members = Lower Fees. Join us for as little as $10 with our payment plans and/or points!" There is the Artisans Cooperative logo on the top right, and on the bottom is a banner saying "Join Us! hi@artisans.coop, artisan.coop/pages/members and a qr code." Throughout the flyer, there are drawings of Brook the chicken mascot (remote)

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infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the the Mercator projection

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• A circle placed on a world map using the Mercator projection shows how distorting this way of depicting the world has become. The circle is highly distended forming a large tear-shaped with undue size and prominence given to the northern portion. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

After verifying my Firefox settings hadn't changed, I noticed that my other programs may have also been affected. So I went to GNOME's accessibility settings, and toggled the "Large Text" switch you see below. Meaning, I flipped it on, watched all the text embiggen, and then flipped it back off, and watched all the text get smaller, but not *as* small. Now the text in everything looks the same as before, as far as I can tell.

Attachments:

• Screen capture of the "Accessibility" settings on GNOME. The "Large Text" option is highlighted. That's the one I flipped on and then off. (While I Was in there, I went ahead and turned off "Overlay Scrollbars" because having scrollbars that entirely disappear until you make the right movement and then they're too heckin' skinny is not cool.) (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I think it's even affecting the size of the browser tabs... Huh.

(Yes. I'm wearing my glasses. 😆)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I updated Firefox on my Fedora system, and now nearly all sites text size seems smaller than it was. I'm having to bump zoom to 120% to get things back to the size they were. So it's like everything has an 83% zoom applied? Weird...

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

BBC's #Ludwig is great. A short whodunit series with Monk vibes, and a perfect cast:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0022wvz/ludwig

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, Fall is really here

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• fe98da6cb1101a4f.jpg (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Based on new data, I've changed my mind about the belief that "People don't change their minds based on new data."🙂🙃

My previous belief was based on the great research on the "backfire effect," done by Brendan Nyhan in 2010. But in 2020, Brendan did new research, showing that he was wrong about people not changing their minds.🙃🙂
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912440117

He showed that presenting the right data the right way, does cause people to change their minds. This was the right data and way for me.

1/N

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine.

While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.

Attachments:

• Screenshot of the Wordpress.org login window that demands you to declare that you are not affiliated with WPEngine (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

rougier@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Nicolas P. Rougier") wrote:

Reviewer Manifesto, with some explanations: https://github.com/rougier/reviewer-manifesto

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

random weird stuff like this was a big part of why I loved working in Sillycone Valley in the 80s & 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4FshiMu3U

"I'm not going to serve you any coffee, I don't want you to short-circuit"

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I don't know about you, but I always want to get my climate science from a Trump-worshipping Texan in a cowboy hat.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/09/this-is-why-the-republicans-want-to-ban-noaa/

Attachments:

• Bobby Lindamood (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

In all the time I've lived in Minnesota, I've never received a general evacuation order. I don't understand Floridians.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/09/hey-florida-you-still-there/

Attachments:

• Hurricane Milton on the way (remote)

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

My experiences running a failed VC-backed startup a few years ago, preceded by my experiences getting grants from government agencies, have made me incredibly allergic to seeking project financing. This has come to the detriment of my potential, and I wish I had solutions.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

8. The Black Cat (1934). A strange collage of science fictional and gothic elements. Boris Karloff lives in an Art Deco mansion in Hungary built on the site of a WWI massacre and the movie treats the mansion as the 20th century's equivalent of a gothic manor. But the conversion from 19th to 20th century is incomplete so you have servants in peasant blouses wandering around in rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows and bakelite alarm clocks

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• Poster for The Black Cat (1934). A black cat with luminescent eyes forms the background of the poster, over which float the greenish faces of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. In the center, a servant of Boris carries a woman in a nightgown who has swooned

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

flavorjones@ruby.social ("Mike Dalessio") wrote:

wtf with these shenanigans

https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

.io is doomed, fml

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

Gankra@toot.cat ("Aria Desires") wrote:

using LaTeX is easy, all you need to know is that when Donald Knuth failed the Mark of Mastery Exam and lost his ability to wield a keyblade, his heart manifested that power into a new person: Tela Type

Tela had the power to wield the Fountain Keypen, which was mightier than any Keyblade.

However when Tela's best friend Roxe was consumed by darkness (creating the nobody Xerox and the heartless Bell), Tela fell into despair and lost her heart too, creating the nobody LaTeX and the heartless Metafont.

You first meet Metafont in *Kingdom Hearts e-ε: ligature drop descender*, although they aren't that important.

LaTeX first appears in *Kingdom Hearts π-ε : hbox overfull*, although at that point they're called TeX.

They only become LaTeX in *Kingdom Hearts Literate:coded* where they merge with their digital replica in a simulation of TAOCP and discover the χ-macro that was hidden inside themselves by king Mickey.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

williampietri@sfba.social ("William Pietri") wrote:

Women only, a quick question: How bad is the reply guy problem on Mastodon? (Please boost for a good sample.)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I like when the CSS takes a split second to render and you get to see who the website truly is

like yeah apple dot com you're just a bunch of unordered lists I can't believe I was ever afraid of you